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- LOCATE Steven Holzner
- Command PC Magazine Vol 4, No 10
- Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
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- Purpose: Searches all files in the current and the
- root directories of a drive for all
- occurrences of any specified sequence (e.g.,
- a word or phrase) of up to 20 ASCII
- characters. Additional search paths and/or
- drives may be specified by using Option 1.
-
- Format: LOCATE searchstring
-
- Remarks: In addition to returning the path(s) and
- filename(s) of the file(s) in which the
- requested string is found, LOCATE puts
- searchstring into a context of up to 20
- immediately surrounding characters.
-
- LOCATE.COM is case sensitive; the string to
- be found must be typed exactly. The program
- does, however, strip "high-order" (non-ASCII)
- bits from searchstring, so it can be used,
- for example with WordStar document files.
-
- Note:
-
- 1. Requires the use of DOS 2.0 or later.
-
- Option 1: Normally, if LOCATE does not find the
- requested string either in the current
- directory or in the disk's root directory, it
- simply exits. It does not automatically
- search every subdirectory on every drive.
-
- You can extend the search range, however, by
- preparing a simple ASCII file that specifies
- additional paths and/or drives. The name of
- this file must be PATH.DAT, and it must be
- located in the root directory (usually C:\
- for hard disks, A:\ for floppies). An
- example of such a PATH.DAT file would be
-
- \WORK
- \LEVEL1
- \A:
-
- Each line in the PATH.DAT file must end with
- a carriage return and specifies an additional
- path (or drive) for LOCATE to check before it
- exits. The PATH.DAT file can be up to 300
- bytes in length, and incorrectly specified
- entries are ignored.
-
- The use of Option 1 will, of course, slow
- down the overall speed of the search.
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